The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-07-14
MINNESOTA NEWS,

Red Wing.
Thus far the hi h license has redeemed tho
members OF saloons about one halt.
At New Ulm, the dwelling house OF Mrs.
8. kneles was burned. Loss, 81, 100.
g. Bergvin was commissioned is post
master at Lambert, MINI.
Aankato Increases ito assessed valu.
alton one-third for 1887. -.
At Fergus Falls, the warehouses belong.
ing to tho Standard Oil company burned.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul win remove
It's division headquarters from Bird IL.
land to Montevideo.
Hon. Chas. E. Lehmann. ofMontgomery,
received kick from horse which badly
disfgured him.
The confectionery store OF George
Thomas OF Mankato was entered and $50
In money and $40 in goods taken.
At Verndaie fire destroyed the farm
heavy, but partly covered by insurance.
At Albert Lea, H. Beck was found guilty
OF selling liquor without g. license and was
fined $25 and costs.
Register Coiville and Receiver Maginnis
were sworn In at Duluth, and took their
places a. officers OF the Duluth land Office:
At Owatonna, P. Bliss, stationer and
book dealer. was closed BY attachment:
He Ill make An assignment.
Mr.. J. 8. Anderson OF Austin has been
promoted to the position of assistant mas.
ter mechanic OF the Milwaukee & St. Paul,
having charge OF the Iowa Il Minnesota,
Iowa & Dakota.
. A two.year old girl Of Frank Farrell OF
Lyle town, Mower Co., wandered from
home and was found drowned In Cedar riv.
er:
James D. Claunch, who was injured in q
fall from q water tank, died at Austin oil
his injuries, and was buried by the Odd
Fellows society.
George MacLish, stranger, aged twenty.
eight years. was drowned in the Minnesota
river at Belle Plaine while bathing. One
OF his companions sega he was from
Belfast, Ireland.
At Norman, the four-year.old daughter
OF A. O. Earshey fell from q balcony six
teen feet and received serious If not fatal
injuries.
Miss Luella Banks OF Minneapolis wants
O divorce from w. H. Banks, who, she
says, has got married twice since leaving
her.
In the case of Catharine Follman vs..
the city o! Mankato for $40, 900 personal
injuries, the jury returned a verdict Of $500
for the plaintiff.
The state dental society will meet in
1925 are expected. The meetings will be
held at tho Nicollet and the clinics at the
Minnesota College hospital.
The suicide OF q young man named Burt
Wood 10 reported from Amboy. He shot
himself in the head with rifle twice, ter.
ribly mutilating his face, and lived about
twelve hours in great pain. He was aged
twenty-five, and did the deed in O fit OF
temporary insanity.
+. Blake. aged seventy four, died at his
home in Mankato recently of cancer in tho
stomach. He leaves a family of seven
sons and four daughters, several OF whom
reside In Mankato. where he has lived for
many years.
At Mankato. there has been paid into
the city treasurer SIS, 600 under the high
license law, thirty licenses having been
taken out at $500 each. Three more will
probably be taken out, making the num-
Dor thirty three. This is but ten less than
at the old figure Of $3.50.
A dispatch from Lumsbord, Fillmore
county says: For the first time in the his.
tory OF Southeastern Minnesota an almost
total failure OF crops is likely to be expert.
enced. The fields are alive with chinch bugs,
and together with drouth they have made
an almost clean sweep OF wheat and barley
and are now attacking corn and oats.
Farmers are cutting their wheat and bar
ley for feed. The hay crop is a failure
owning to theprolonged hot and dry wealth
er. Some farmers are surrounding their
corn fields with tarred boards to prevent
the migration OF chinch bugs thithor.
4 double wedding occurred at Melrose, in
which Lois Wheeler is united to Clark
Evans OF St. Paul and Miss Ella Wheeler
to Perry Lindburg OF Melrose.
Mike Mcnamara was shot through tho
heart by 7. F. McDonough in a West Side
St. Paul saloon. The stricken man stag.
gered up the street and dropped dead in the
arrested, and acknowledged the crime,
but claims 1t was In self-defense. The
quarrel was all about d-o.r.g.
A telegram has been received by Adit.
Gen. Seeley from Adjt. Gen. Drum, U. s.
A., containing the following: The Sec
rotary OF war approves your re.
quest for the detail Of Capt. Groesbeck to
inspect the national guard camp of Man.
kato. The commanding general of the de-.
partment OF Dakota has been instructed
accordingly by telegraph.
The proposition to issue $40, 900 bonds
In aid OF Duluth, Red Wing, and Southern
railroad was carried in Steele county by q
majority of 428 with towns all heard from
except one, which may reduce It to 400.
On the Fourth, at tho state prison in
Saltwater, every prisoner was turned
lose in the corridor and the fullest liberty
for conversation and visiting given. Here.
tofore on holiday occasions prisoners were
allowed to visit each other in locked cells,
but the long bar was lifted and all came
men were asse mbled, as many as possible
on the lower floor and others in the gal.
leries, the warden addressed them in a few
off-hand remarks, saying that each would
be treated like a man when nothing offend.
ing against square shouldered manhood
was manifested. He however, gave time,
warning that ipfractions Of tho rules
would be punished at once and severely.
He commended the mass on their good
OF approval went up from the imprisoned
men. Convicts Schoonmaker and Lands
arose to remark that the new style oil
discipline and treatment inaugurated by
Warden Stordock had made them more
obedtent and patient prisoners and had
added to their own self respect. A convict
named Jackson said he was q bad man
and you all know it," but he appreciated
the privileges, and when go out it will
be with a resolve to be better man"
He added, "Others here have said 80. I
suppose, but feel it, After a time the
Imprisoned men were given an unusually
good dinner, and all who wished enjoyed q
good cigar, proffered by the warden.
At the council meeting at Sleepy Eye the
$50, 700 Of city fire bonds WAS sold to the
Merchants bank OF that place at q premi-
UNI of two per cent. Tho bonds run ten
years and draw per cent interest.
The annual agricultural statement for
Ramsey county prepared by Auditor Kahn
shows the following total average planted
this season in tho county: Wheat, 1853
acres; oats 4,299; corn, 1,173; barley,
1913; rye, So; buckwheat, 2; potatoes,
Loaf; beans. IL; sugar cane, IL; hay,
3,437; other produce, $50; total cultivat.
ed acreage, II, 372.
The contract for building tho extension
Of the sewerage system Of St, Cloud was
awarded to E. T. Sykes & Co., OF Minneap-
oils for $40, 900.
Daniel L. Tucker died at Hillsdale,
Of cancer OF the stomach. aged seventy six
years. He was resident OF Nininger
twelve years. removing to Grant county in